Ainslie, Donald C. · 2003
Review Hume, a Scottish Socrates?
Ainslie, Donald C. (2003). “Review Hume, a Scottish Socrates?.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 33(1): 133–154.
62
citations of the Treatise
226
paragraphs reached
20%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.60
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 38%Causation and the Appendix problem 17%Body and the external world 33%Immateriality of the soul 13%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 3.1.1.1 1 other papers reach it
- T 2.3.10.9 no other paper reaches it
- T 2.3.10.8 no other paper reaches it
Nearest papers
- Winkler 2000 similarity 0.79
All Is Revolution in Us Personal Identity in Shaftesbury and Hume - Greco 2015 similarity 0.77
The Self as Narrative in Hume - Swain 2006 similarity 0.76
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy - Waxman 1992 similarity 0.75
Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity - Spector 1998 similarity 0.74
Looking Through the Minds I Empiricism, Moral Psychology, and Humes Trouble with the Self
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
Part 1: Of Ideas, their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction, &c
Part 2: Of the ideas of space and time
Part 3: Of knowledge and probability
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 1: Of Pride and Humility
Part 2: Of love and hatred
Part 3: Of the will and direct passions
Book 3: Of Morals
Part 1: Of Virtue and Vice in general
Part 2: Of justice and injustice
Part 3: Of the other virtues and vices
Appendix
The evidence
Every citation the pipeline accepted, with the words around it. “Citation pattern” means a standard Norton or Selby-Bigge reference; “quote matched” means the quoted words were found in the Treatise at that page; “checked by model” means a language model judged an ambiguous page number to be a Treatise citation.
| Cited as | Maps to | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Appendix 4 Citation pattern | App. 4 | …owed by 'SBN' and the page number as given in the Selby-Bigge Nidditch edition. See also Appendix 4 of An Enquiry Conce… |
| T 3.2.1 Citation pattern | T 3.2.1 (19 paragraphs) | …e thinks that natural virtues are spontaneously manifested in their possessor's behavior (T 3.2.1). The generous pers… |
| T 2.3.2.67 Citation pattern | T 1.2.6 (6 paragraphs) | …make a difference to how we understand her, for it would be wholly disconnected from her (T 2.3.2.67, SBN 411-12). (What… |
| SBN 411-12 Citation pattern | T 2.3.2 (3 paragraphs) | …rence to how we understand her, for it would be wholly disconnected from her (T 2.3.2.67, SBN 411-12). (What gets tricky… |
| 3.2.2.22 Citation pattern | T 3.2.2.22 | … the Treatise where he says that someone could be benevolent and unjust, or a just miser (3.2.2.22, SBN 479). And cons… |
| T 3.1.2.4 Citation pattern | T 3.1.2.4 | … consider the trait being evaluated 'in general,' without reference to our self-interest (T 3.1.2.4, SBN 472), and to c… |
| T 3.3.1.15 Citation pattern | T 3.3.1.15 | …for distortions brought on by our distance from the person whose trait we are evaluating (T 3.3.1.15, SBN 581-2). And he… |
| T 3.3.1 Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs) | …es - qualities useful or agreeable to the trait's possessor or to those who surround her (T 3.3.1) - offer little hel… |
| T 3.3.6.6 Citation pattern | T 3.3.6.6 | …y through the eyes of a 'moralist,' Hume sees it through the eyes of a moral 'anatomist' (T 3.3.6.6, SBN 621). The job … |
| T 3.3.3.9 Citation pattern | T 3.3.3.9 | …. If he be as little wanting to himself as to others, his character is entirely perfect' (T 3.3.3.9, SBN 606). - 13 Suc… |
| T 2.1.5.11 Citation pattern | T 2.1.5.11 | …in this case the indirect passions - to explain our beliefs about persons (see especially T 2.1.5.11, SBN 290). And just… |
| T 1.3.15 Citation pattern | T 1.3.15 (13 paragraphs) | …nd just as Hume allows an attenuated version of objectivity to apply to causal judgments (T 1.3.15), so also he allows… |
| T 2.1.6.8-9 Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (2 paragraphs) | …of objectivity to apply to our judgments about what makes a person into who she or he is (T 2.1.6.8-9, My defense of Hume… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | … succ each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual fl and movement' (T 1.4.6.4, SBN 252). Famously… |
| SBN 293-4 Citation pattern | T 2.1.6.7 to T 2.1.7.1 (5 paragraphs) | … is a bundle of perceptions, any description that the 'scientist of man' can give of the SBN 293-4). Thus I think that… |
| T 3.1.2.5, 3 Citation pattern | T 3.1.2 (2 paragraphs) | …moral sentiments and the indirect passions, so notable throughout Book 3 of the Treatise (T 3.1.2.5, 3.3.1.3, 3.3.5.1; SBN… |
| 3.3.5.1 Citation pattern | T 3.3.5.1 | … the indirect passions, so notable throughout Book 3 of the Treatise (T 3.1.2.5, 3.3.1.3, 3.3.5.1; SBN 473, 575, 614;… |
| T 2.1.7.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.7.2 | …roughout Book 3 of the Treatise (T 3.1.2.5, 3.3.1.3, 3.3.5.1; SBN 473, 575, 614; see also T 2.1.7.2, SBN 295), results … |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …lf 'as it regards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves' - the self of Book 2 (T 1.4.6.5, SBN 253). Penelhum… |
| T 2.1.2.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.2 | … succession of ideas and impressions of which we have intimate memory and consciousness' (T 2.1.2.2, SBN 278), and Pene… |
| T 2.1.5.6 Citation pattern | T 2.1.5.6 | …Hume himself says, these passions make us 'think of our own qualities and circumstances' (T 2.1.5.6, SBN 287); they 'ca… |
| T 2.1.8.8 Citation pattern | T 2.1.8.8 | …tances' (T 2.1.5.6, SBN 287); they 'cause us to form an idea of our merit and character' (T 2.1.8.8, SBN 303). Third, i… |
| T 2.1.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (6 paragraphs) | …will not be available to serve as the object of the passions. I take Hume's definition at T 2.1.2 to indicate what go… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | … while Hume clearly holds that the minds- of all of 'mankind' are bundles of perceptions (T 1.4.6.4, SBN 252), it does … |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …liar philosophical mindset will have made the introspective moves - the 'intimate entry' (T 1.4.6.3, SBN 252) into them… |
| T 1.4.2.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.6 | …ruse" and "metaphysical"] ideas of self and person are never very fix'd nor determinate' (T 1.4.2.6, SBN 189-90), thus … |
| T 1.3.8.15-17 Citation pattern | T 1.3.8 (3 paragraphs) | …ence of a somewhat vivacious idea of an impression (i.e. of the seeing) of the Tower (see T 1.3.8.15-17, SBN 105-6). Hume c… |
| T 1.1.1.11 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.11 | …lls such higher-level ideas that have other perceptions as their objects secondary ideas (T 1.1.1.11, SBN 6), whether th… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …who do not share Hume's approach - have not formulated the 'true idea of the human mind' (T 1.4.6.19, SBN 261) as a bund… |
| T 2.1.11.14-18 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (5 paragraphs) | … myself as importantly defined by my family history (through pride or humility in it, see T 2.1.11.14-18, SBN 322-3) that I … |
| T 2.3.3.7 Citation pattern | T 2.3.3.7 | …s of these passions are 'unreasonable7 in that they are 'founded on a false supposition7 (T 2.3.3.7, SBN 416). And this… |
| T 2.3.3.7 Citation pattern | T 2.3.3.7 | …falshood of any supposition ... our passions yield to our reason without any opposition7 (T 2.3.3.7, SBN 416). Of cours… |
| T 2.2.1.9 Citation pattern | T 2.2.1.9 | …osophical reflection. I would instead point to Hume's comments about our 'presensations' (T 2.2.1.9, SBN 332)18 of what… |
| T 1.4.6.1-3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … for my interpretation is Hume's rejection at the start of the personal identity Section (T 1.4.6.1-3, SBN 251-2) of the … |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | … he holds that only those who 'enter most intimately' into themselves so as to 'observe' (T 1.4.6.3, SBN 252) their per… |
| T 1.4.6.4-5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …mind, even though it is made up of many different perceptions at a time and through time (T 1.4.6.4-5, SBN 253)? And his … |
| T 2.2.6.2 Citation pattern | T 2.2.6.2 | …s of perceptions, in this case secondary ideas of them: 20 Penelhum is here quoting from T 2.2.6.2, SBN 366: 'In exami… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …tion, when we reflect upon them [sc. when we reflect upon the mind and its perceptions]. (T 1.4.6.16, SBN 260, emphasis … |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …hen goes on to say that '[the] case is the same whether we consider ourselves or others' (T 1.4.6.18, SBN 260-1). But in… |
| T App.20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …r consciousness/ where consciousness is now defined as 'reflected thought or perception' (T App.20, SBN 635-6)? Penel… |
| T 1.4.7.14 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.14 | … thinks that when a 'truly' skeptical philosopher of the sort he professes himself to be (T 1.4.7.14, SBN 273) 'leaves [… |
| T 1.4.2.53 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4.33 to T 1.2.5.1 (2 paragraphs) | …o be (T 1.4.7.14, SBN 273) 'leaves [his] closet, [and] mingles with the rest of mankind' (T 1.4.2.53, SBN 216), he will … |
| SBN 216 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …7.14, SBN 273) 'leaves [his] closet, [and] mingles with the rest of mankind' (T 1.4.2.53, SBN 216), he will take with… |
| T 1.4.3.9-10 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …inciples of human nature that he has uncovered from his introspective self-investigation (T 1.4.3.9-10, SBN 222-4). For ex… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …, only at one level higher in the perceptual hierarchy. For, as I have suggested, Hume in Treatise 1.4.6 is interested in th… |
| T 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …cognize that it goes to the heart of his explanation of our belief in external objects in T 1.4.2 and 1.4.3, and so h… |
| 1.4.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) | … it goes to the heart of his explanation of our belief in external objects in T 1.4.2 and 1.4.3, and so he would no… |
| SBN 623 Citation pattern | Appendix (2 paragraphs) | …escribe the problem in the 'Appendix' as his single 'very considerable mistake' (T App.l, SBN 623) in the whole of Bo… |
| T App.10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …her beliefs about mental unity does not encompass them. Thus Hume enters the 'labyrinth' (T App.10, SBN 633) of confus… |
| T 3.3.2.8 Citation pattern | T 3.3.2.8 | …e, than to have a value for ourselves, where we really have qualities that are valuable' (T 3.3.2.8, SBN 596); and 'mod… |
| T 3.3.2.1 Citation pattern | T 3.3.2.1 | …st sense of our weakness, is esteem'd virtuous, and procures the good-will of every one' (T 3.3.2.1, SBN 592). But, whi… |
| T 3.3.2.9 Citation pattern | T 3.3.2.9 | …iately agreeable to others, it 'produces often uneasiness in the person endow'd with it' (T 3.3.2.9, SBN 597). On the o… |
| T 3.3.2.8 Citation pattern | T 3.3.2.8 | …nterprizes; ... nothing inspires us with more boldness than a good opinion of ourselves' (T 3.3.2.8, SBN 597). But, eve… |
| T 3.3.2.10 Citation pattern | T 3.3.2.10 | …ualities, 'everyone has a strong propensity' to have 'an over-weaning conceit of himself (T 3.3.2.10, SBN 597). Moreover… |
| T 3.3.2.10 Citation pattern | T 3.3.2.10 | …s towards herself can cause us to feel inadequate. And thus the 'rules of good-breeding' (T 3.3.2.10, SBN 597) require u… |
| T 1.4.7.8 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.8 | … with the deepest darkness, and utterly depriv'd of the use of every member and faculty' (T 1.4.7.8, SBN 269). It is on… |
| T 1.4.7.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.9 | …the search for philosophical self-knowledge - dining and playing backgammon with friends (T 1.4.7.9, SBN 269) - that he… |
| SBN 271 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7 (2 paragraphs) | … Hume does, of course, return to philosophy, but simply because he enjoys it (T.l.4.7.12, SBN 271); he now sees it as… |
| T 2.3.10.8-9 Citation pattern | T 2.3.10 (2 paragraphs) | …12, SBN 271); he now sees it as a recreational activity on a par with hunting or gaining (T 2.3.10.8-9, SBN 451-2). So, in… |
| T 1.4.7.14 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.14 | …d of, and which wou'd serve to temper those fiery particles, of which they are compos'd. (T 1.4.7.14, SBN 272) There is… |
| T 1.4.7.13 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.13 | … 'that narrow circle of objects, which are the subject of daily conversation and action' (T 1.4.7.13, SBN 271). The prob… |
| T 3.1.1.1 Citation pattern | T 3.1.1.1 | …epistemological issues in Book 1, to psychological issues in Book 2, to ethics in Book 3 (T 3.1.1.1, SBN 455). The same… |